Thursday, July 20: Orioles vs Rays to begin the biggest series of the Elias/Hyde era

[Tony-OH]

2 minutes ago, O's84 said:

Is Fuji going to be available tomorrow?

I would think so. He may be very important tomorrow if the game is close.

[Hank Scorpio]

Just now, Hallas said:

Did Bautista throw it at Raley because he might have been bunting?  Kind of wonder about that.  I've seen that a few times this year with the ghost runner.

I think he was just overly concerned about Franco.

[24fps]

1 minute ago, G54377 said:

If we don't trust Frazier at 2B I'm not sure why he's on the team. Might as well bring back Ortiz.

Heretic!

[Tony-OH]

1 minute ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

This is also why I want add a reliever like Hader or Robertson, so it's not so stressful when you know Bautista or Cano is going to need a night off.

No doubt this team still needs another top reliever. Just depends on if we can get one without giving up a top 7 or 8 prospect.

[baltfan]

1 minute ago, Hallas said:

Did Bautista throw it at Raley because he might have been bunting?  Kind of wonder about that.  I've seen that a few times this year with the ghost runner.

He hit him because he was too concerned about the runner at second. Thankfully he hit him, because it would have been a wild pitch. 

[Gurgi]

1 minute ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

This is also why I want add a reliever like Hader or Robertson, so it's not so stressful when you know Bautista or Cano is going to need a night off.

Would be funny to win a World Series with Hader.  Bet he would never have expected that when he left the organisation.  

[spiritof66]

Big night in Cowser's arc toward becoming a real ML player.

[Aristotelian]

Is there any way we could have played that to avoid Frazier at 2B? He made that way too close.

[24fps]

Just now, spiritof66 said:

Big night in Cowser's arc toward becoming a real ML player.

Maybe the big unnoticed story during an iffy win.  Hopefully tonight broke up the logjam for  him.

[baltfan]

Just now, Aristotelian said:

Is there any way we could have played that to avoid Frazier at 2B? He made that way too close.

Yeah let Urias stay in and try to bunt instead of Frazier. 

[Sports Guy]

It’s a shame Bautista isn’t that good, huh @Moose Milligan

[O's84]

5 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

This is also why I want add a reliever like Hader or Robertson, so it's not so stressful when you know Bautista or Cano is going to need a night off.

Yeah definitely.  Can you imagine if we had someone like prime Andrew Miller to just put out fires when our SP is tired.

[Uli2001]

This is the year. Almost any other year, this would have been an L.

[RarityFlaherty]

1 minute ago, Aristotelian said:

Is there any way we could have played that to avoid Frazier at 2B? He made that way too close.

If they didn’t pinch hit Mountcastle, they could have left Mateo out there with Henderson at 3rd and Westburg at 2nd. 

[Mooreisbetter27]

Gunnar played great defense today.